To storm a fortress

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I'm finding it quite a struggle to get to Karate three times a week at the moment, partly directly because of the heat and partly through general tiredness (which the heat probably isn't helping with). Nonetheless I managed to get there today, and Wednesday is the one that usually falls first since it's furtherst away, so it's looking like I'll manage the three this week at least.

We've been learning a new kata, Bassai Dai, which feels fairly different to me from most of the previous ones we've done (though there are the odd points of similarity here and there). At the start of this evening's lesson I couldn't really remember any of it, by the end I was beginning to make some sense of stretches of it.